If you had to sell your house, sell your car, move half away across the world and you can only bring a few of your belongings..would you do it for the one you love…if you’re a military wife the answer is always yes! You do it because you love your spouse and you love this country. Moving to Okinawa is not easy and the whole process can be very overwhelming. You have to leave everything behind including your friends and family. You just show up with your suitcases and thats about it..you don’t even have a driver’s license. I always try to make the best of any situation. I believe you are as happy as you make up your mind to be, and that is exactly what I decided to do. Trust me there are those days when I get frustrated with little things about living in a foreign country..but I can usually look back on those days and laugh. Like the time my baby was screaming and my other boys were all starving and I just wanted to order through a drive thru. There are not many to choose from in Okinawa…{oh how I miss chick fil A, Dairy Queen, and Sonic}..we ended up at McDonalds. I tried to order and we all ended up with fish sandwiches instead of chicken. Now at the time it wasn’t that funny but now my boys laugh about the time mom ordered everyone fish sandwiches!! And how I scared everyone to death when I drove on the left side of the road for the first time..I have never heard my boys so quiet!
One of the things I was most nervous about was the house we would move into. We are a family of 6 and the houses here are a little over 1000 sq. ft. and they are all concrete. Okinawa is known for getting some of the strongest typhoons every year so your house has to be able to withstand the winds. Last fall we almost had a direct hit from a category 5 typhoon so I was glad to live in my little concrete house that day!
It’s like that song…
Love grows best in little houses,
with fewer walls to separate.
Where you eat and sleep so close together,
you can’t help but communicate.
And if we had more room between us,
think of all we’d miss.
Love grows best in houses just like this.
As all military wives we make any house a home. I know a lot of military wives coming to Okinawa are most interested in what the houses look like here so I will be posting pictures of my house to help.
